Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... live in the Humanist prison . He notes with satisfaction ' that curiosity is one of the strongest and most lasting ... lives habitually in a 10 ADDISON.
... live in the Humanist prison . He notes with satisfaction ' that curiosity is one of the strongest and most lasting ... lives habitually in a 10 ADDISON.
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... live in a man's house for a whole twelve- month , I think I should be more curious about the quality of his small beer than about that of his wine ; more curious about his bread and butter and beef than about either . Writers like ...
... live in a man's house for a whole twelve- month , I think I should be more curious about the quality of his small beer than about that of his wine ; more curious about his bread and butter and beef than about either . Writers like ...
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... live with his brother at Folkestone , where the two worked at their trans- lation of Plutarch's Lives , which was published in 1770 , and reprinted at least sixteen times in the next sixty years , from 1809 with ' Corrections and ...
... live with his brother at Folkestone , where the two worked at their trans- lation of Plutarch's Lives , which was published in 1770 , and reprinted at least sixteen times in the next sixty years , from 1809 with ' Corrections and ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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